Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
16 March 2005

                            Mitchells & Butlers plc


                           Purchase of Own Securities


Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 16 March 2005 it purchased for
cancellation 300,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 334.4613 pence per
ordinary share.



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